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The reports also noted a connection between his client consuming alcohol and becoming violent.

"That means when he's on the grog he's a dangerous young man," Judge Christopher Ryan summarised.

He said there was no joy in sentencing young men to prison but deterrence was necessary.

"The publicity that has been in the public domain for years prompted by one-punch manslaughters outside licensed premises and the catastrophic circumstances that flow from young men getting drunk and violent is well understood in our community and calls for general deterrence," he said.